Finishing eighth on the ladder at the end of the 2011 season, Essendon lost to in the elimination final by 62 points.

Hawks developed the script with Seton Miller for their eighth and final collaboration and the script was by Miller, Kubec Glasmon, John Bright and Niven Busch.

In his final season of 1947, Greenberg tied for the league lead in walks with 104, with a. 408 on-base percentage and finished eighth in the league in home runs and tenth in slugging percentage.

On November 16, 1959, Boston business executive Billy Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise of the developing American Football League ( AFL ).

The one silver lining was Tony Gwynn's eighth and final National League batting title, won in the final days of the season after a down-to-the wire duel with the Colorado Rockies ' Larry Walker.

It was also the eighth and final Super Bowl telecast ( and final NFL telecast of any kind ) for the Summerall and Madden announcing team.

Mike Matusow won the first prize of $ 1 million ( US ), and all the players at the final table were guaranteed a minimum of $ 25, 000 for the eighth and ninth place finishers.

The Olympics marked Gretzky's eighth and final international appearance, finishing with four assists in six games.

The 1966 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match in the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth football World Cup.

It depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter ; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story.

She broke from formula by taking the unglamorous role of Julie in Strange Cargo ( 1940 ), her eighth and final film with Gable.

Risk is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth released on August 31, 1999, and is the band's final studio album released by Capitol Records.

The California Angels finally made the playoffs in Ryan's eighth and final year there in 1979.

In the fifth and final game of the 1976 American League Championship Series, Brett hit a three-run homer in the top of the eighth inning to tie the score at six — only to see the Yankees ' Chris Chambliss launch a solo shot in the bottom of the ninth to give the Yankees a 7 – 6 win.

This victory was his eighth consecutive win in a Grand Slam final ( starting at 1995 Wimbledon ), which remains a record in the Open Era.

He then defeated Sjeng Schalken in the semifinals to reach his third straight US Open final, and eighth US Open final overall, tying Ivan Lendl's all-time record.

It would also be Stewart and Mann's eighth and final collaboration and the third of three movies that paired Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson, the others being The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller Story.

The hunt for the eighth and final Lazy Gun is the main plot theme of Against a Dark Background.

Despite O ' Neal's presence, the Magic missed the 1993 NBA Playoffs because they were tied with the Indiana Pacers for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with the Pacers holding the tiebreaker.

Dallas lost 5-3, and the Blackhawks clinched the eighth and final seed in the Western Conference.

After qualifying for the post-season in 2001 and 2002 as the eighth and final seed in the Western Conference ( losing to the eventual Stanley Cup winners Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings, respectively ), the Canucks became regular contenders for the Northwest Division title.

One of the most discussed potential nominees is Paul Henderson, who scored the winning goal in the final moments of the deciding eighth game of the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union.

In the eighth episode of season 8, named " Manhattan Hillbillies ," Granny tells the police officer in Central Park that her family comes from Taney County ( which is in southwest Missouri ).

Throughout the series, Clark never officially adopted a costume until around the eighth season, but prior to this was seen wearing Superman's traditional colors of red and blue, more often as the series progresses ( more commonly a blue shirt underneath a red jacket, reflecting Superman's uniform and cape colors ).

During the 1984 and 1985 seasons, Earnhardt visited victory lane six times, at Talladega, Atlanta, Richmond, Bristol ( twice ), and Martinsville, where he finished fourth and eighth in the season standings, respectively.

However, poor performances at the road course of Watkins Glen, where he wrecked coming out of the chicane, a wreck with Chad Little while leading the spring race at Bristol, and mid-pack runs at intermediate tracks like Charlotte and Dover in a season dominated by the Ford Taurus in those tracks of Roush, Yates, and Penske, coupled with the extremely consistent Joe Gibb's No. 18 team with Bobby Labonte, denied Earnhardt the coveted eighth championship title.

In the eighth season, it is revealed that the positive pregnancy test found at Monica's wedding belongs to Rachel.

They started the season with a three-game sweep of the Cubs but eventually finished eighth among the National League's ten teams.

Spader planned to stay only through the eighth season, and while the original plan was just to do the guest appearance, executive producer Paul Lieberstein said, " those two scenes became a season.

Despite the success in domestic cups, Liverpool was 17th in the table over the second half of the season to finish the season eighth, their worst showing in the league since 1994, failing to qualify for Europe's Champions League for a third straight season.

In the eighth season of the US version of Dancing with the Stars, it was added to the list of dances along with the Argentine Tango.

* " Legion ", an eighth season episode of the television series Smallville

After hitting in either the second or eighth spot in the batting order for most of his time in St. Louis, Herzog made Smith the number-two hitter full-time during the 1987 season.

He had been seventh and eighth in the domestic runscoring and wicket-taking aggregates for the season, but was yet to convert this into international performance.

Also in 2003, Tomlinson accumalated 195 total yards from scrimmage in a late season game against the Packers to raise his season total to 2, 011 and became the first player in team history and the eighth player in NFL history to record consecutive 2, 000-yard seasons.

The Cowboys, who posted a 12-4 regular season record, were making their eighth Super Bowl appearance, while the Steelers, who recorded an 11-5 regular season record, were making their fifth appearance.

The show's future was not to be, however, because John Doggett's presence gave only a small ratings boost to the show's eighth season.

The band stopped touring North America after their Hot Space Tour, as their success there had waned, although they would perform on American television for the only time during the eighth season premiere of Saturday Night Live.

* 24 ( 2010 ) In episode 13 of the eighth season of the serial action / drama television series, former FBI special agent Renee Walker is shown to stay in the hotel, in the residential apartment of Jack Bauer, who was living there.

The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

During its flowering in the sixth to the eighth centuries, Mahayana offered a supernatural package to the Chinese which bears no resemblance to the highly digested philosophical Zen morsels offered to the modern Western reader.

During the post-Phoenician era of the eighth century a palace was erected and a port was also constructed, which served the trade with the Greeks and the Levantines.

There are seven districts ( with an eighth currently under construction ), each of which is divided into smaller suburbs, and most of which have a town centre which is the focus of commercial and social activities.

# The head of the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which David divided the priests, and an ancestor of Zecharias the priest, who was the father of John the Baptist.

In 1995, Simon Keynes observed that " if Bede's concept of the Southumbrian overlord, and the chronicler's concept of the ' Bretwalda ', are to be regarded as artificial constructs, which have no validity outside the context of the literary works in which they appear, we are released from the assumptions about political development which they seem to involve ... we might ask whether kings in the eighth and ninth centuries were quite so obsessed with the establishment of a pan-Southumbrian state ".

This problem leads to an equation of the eighth degree, of which one solution, the Earth's orbit, is known.

Photius, writing in the 9th century, found various text appended to manuscripts of the seven canonical books, which lead Daniel Heinsius to suggest that the original eighth book is lost, and he identified the text purported to be from the eighth book as fragments of the Hypopotoses.

It set the first eight year presidential term for Pinochet, with a plebiscite in the eighth year, in which only one candidate, nominated by the Junta, would be accepted or not.

Starting in the 1990s, smaller half, quarter, eighth and even sixteenth-sized instruments became more widely available, which meant that children could start at a younger age.

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

* St Vergilius of Salzburg ( c. 700 – 784 ), in the middle of the eighth century, discussed or taught some geographical or cosmographical ideas which St Boniface found sufficiently objectionable that he complained about them to Pope Zachary.

Indeed, amongst many ancient writers, Moses himself was seen as an Egyptian rather than a Jew, and two manuscripts likely dating to the 4th century, both of which purport to be the legendary eighth Book of Moses ( the first five being the initial books in the Biblical Old Testament ), present him as a polytheist who explained how to conjure gods and subdue demons.

The Visigoths under Alaric I sacked Rome in 410, defeated Attila at the Battle of the Catalunian Plains in 451, and founded a Kingdom in Aquitaine which was pushed to Hispania by the Franks in 507, converted to Catholicism by the late sixth century, and in the early eighth century conquered by the Muslim Moors.

A settlement grew up around this monastery, which survived until the Viking invasions in the eighth century.

Its seat is located in the city of Helsingborg, which is Sweden's eighth largest city.

Further ," there is no century between the fourth and the eighth in which there is not some evidence of opposition to images even within the Church.

A " little horn ," which is to supplant three of Rome's ten divisions, is also the still future " eighth " in Revelation.